FOMENTING PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION: INDUCTION STRATEGIES

Public Sector Innovation Week - Turning Ideas into Solutions.

2 December 2015, Brasilia

Marco DaglioProject ManagerObservatory of Public Sector InnovationPublic Governance and Territorial DevelopmentOECD

Innovation lifecycle

Identifying issues• Needs assessment• Horizon

scanning

Generating ideas

• Sourcing • Selecting

Developing• Making the

case• Risk

assessment

Implementing• Testing / prototyping

• Resourcing• Knowledge

flows

Evaluating• Impact assessment• Capacity assessment

Diffusing• Growing• Scaling

Enabling innovation

Making innovation part of the day job

Trialling and making mistakes

Targeting resources

Leveraging networks

Getting leaders on board

Co-producing with users

Getting Leaders on Board

Canada’s Central Innovation Hub

• Housed in the Privy Council Office, acts as an information and guidance resource for all government departments

• Connects innovators across government and sectors

• An innovation catalyst, creating solutions for different policy, program and public service challenges

Making Innovation Part of the Day Job

Belgium’s "Spring uit de band" (jump wild, become crazy)• An innovative learning networkin the Flemish government that coaches civil servants and projects

• The network creates a more innovative climate and encourages collaboration across departments

• The learning program helps refine innovation processes and supports innovators learn in government

Trialling and Making Mistakes

Finland’s Cardboard Hospital• Provides opportunity for staff, architects and patients to co-designHospital infrastructure and services

• New ideas and better evaluation are enabled through a reconstructed physical space and environment

• A cross-disciplinary group negotiates differing needs in a constructive way aiming for an end result through the prototyping activity

Targeting Resources

The UK’s Impact Readiness Fund• £2 million Cabinet Office Impact Readiness Fund pilot

funds social ventures to put systems, processes, and governance in place to understand and improve social impact

• Generates lessons on models of capacity building support that can be scaled up

• Helps social sector collect, manage and analyse data to manage business and

maximise impact

Co-producing With Users

Netherland’s Municipal Budget “Citizen Experts”• City of Zeist launched citizen engagement process on

2010 austerity dialogue to close €6 million budget gap

• Citizens co-commissioned new solutions with the municipality for more efficient service delivery

• 95% of the 200 “citizen experts” proposals were adopted by city council without any changes

Leveraging Networks

The U.S.’s LAUNCH

• A global innovation platform created by NASA, USAID, Department of State and NIKE to pool resources to seek innovative technologies and ideas for development

• Searches for transformative innovations and connects to thought leaders and experts to implement 10 innovators’ projects without using government funding

• Focus on transforming materials and manufacturing systems to have social, environmental and economic impacts

“I will be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?”

What can we do? A Call to Action

Building innovative capacity across the public sector means focusing on:

– the people involved

– the information they are using

– the rules and processes which govern their work

– the ways in which they are working together